Category:Enameled glass beaker - Egypt or Syria - late 13th or early 14th century - Gulbenkian museum - Inv. 2378

**Enameled Mamluk beaker**
	Enameled beaker highlighted in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum collection
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Instance of	beaker; glassware;
Made from material	glass; vitreous enamel; gold;
Location	Lisbon, Portugal
Country of origin	Mamluk Sultanate;
Owned by	George Eumorfopoulos (–1940); Calouste Gulbenkian (1940–);
Collection	Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (collection highlight);
Inventory number	2378 (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum);
Inception	14th century (first half);
Diameter	15 cm (foundation);
Height	33.5 cm;
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Enameled glass beaker covered with exotic birds- Egypt or Syria - late 13th or early 14th century - Mamluk period - Gulbenkian museum - Inv. 2378

This is a masterpiece of glassworkig in terms of scale and decoration. The decoration has been interpreted as a visualisation of the Sufi poem, The Confernce of the birds, in which the birds of the world convene to choose a ruler ; each represents a human weakness which prohibits humanity from achieving enlighment. After an arduous journey through seven valleys in search of this mystical Simorgh, the thirty remaining birds see themselves reflected in a lake and comme to understand that the Simorgh they have sought is none other than themeselves (copy from cartel)